The winners of the 1997 Governor General's Literary Awards was announced on November 18th by Donna Scott, Chairman of the Canada Council for the Arts. Each winner received a cheque for $10,000.

Table of contents
1 English Language
2 French Language
3 Other Governor General's Awards:

English Language

Fiction

Winner:

Other Finalists:
  • Sandra Birdsell, The Two-Headed Calf
  • Matt Cohen, Last Seen
  • Elizabeth Hay, Small Change
  • Eric McCormack, First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women

Poetry

Winner: Other Finalists:

Drama

Winner:

  • Ian Ross, fareWel

Other Finalists:
  • Maureen Hunter, Atlantis
  • Lee MacDougall, High Life
  • Jason Sherman, Reading Hebron
  • Judith Thompson, Sled

Non-fiction

Winner:

  • Rachel Manley, Drumblair - Memories of a Jamaican Childhood

Other Finalists:
  • Wade Davis, One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest
  • Catherine Dunphy, Morgentaler: A Difficult Hero
  • Terry Glavin, This Ragged Place - Travels Across the Landscape
  • Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser, Loyal till Death - Indians and the North-West Rebellion

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:

  • Kit Pearson, Awake and Dreaming

Other Finalists:
  • Cheryl Foggo, One Thing That's True
  • James Heneghan, Wish Me Luck
  • Teddy Jam, The Fishing Summer
  • Barbara Nichol, Dippers

Children's Literature - Illustrations

Winner:

  • Barbara Reid, The Party

Other Finalists:
  • Blair Drawson, Flying Dimitri
  • Marie-Louise Gay, Rumpelstiltskin
  • Robin Muller, The Angel Tree
  • Ludmila Zeman, The First Red Maple Leaf

Translation - French to English

Winner:

  • Howard Scott, The Euguelion

Other Finalists:

French Language

Fiction

Winner:

Other Finalists:
  • Bernard Assiniwi, La Saga des Béothuks
  • Lise Bissonnette, Quittes et Doubles - Scènes de réciprocité
  • Pierre Morency, La Vie entière - Histoires naturelles du Nouveau Monde
  • Pierre Ouellet, Légende dorée

Poetry

Winner:

  • Pierre Nepveu, Romans-fleuves

Other Finalists:
  • Nicole Brossard, Vertige de l'avant-scène
  • Serge Legagneur, Poèmes choisis, 1961-1997
  • Paul Chanel Malenfant, Fleuves
  • Hélène Monette, Plaisirs et Paysages kitsch

Drama

Winner:

  • Yvan Bienvenue, Dits et Inédits

Other Finalists:
  • Jasmine Dubé, La Bonne Femme
  • Marie-Line Laplante, Une tache sur la lune
  • Robert Marinier, L'Insomnie
  • Larry Tremblay, Ogre - Cornemuse

Non-Fiction

Winner:

  • Roland Viau, Enfants du néant et mangeurs d'âmes - Guerre, culture et société en Iroquoisie ancienne

Other Finalists:
  • Fernand Dumont, Une foi partagée
  • Yolande Geadah, Femmes voilées, intégrismes démasqués
  • Alain Bernard Marchand, Tintin au pays de la ferveur
  • François Ricard, Gabrielle Roy - Une vie

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:

  • Michel Noël, Pien

Other Finalists:

Children's Literature - Illustrations

Winner:

  • Stéphane Poulin, Poil de serpent, dent d'araignée

Other Finalists:
  • Leanne Franson, L'Ourson qui voulait une Juliette
  • Stéphane Jorisch, Casse-Noisette
  • Gilles Tibo, Simon et le petit cirque

Translation - English to French

Winner:

  • Marie José Thériault, Arracher les montagnes

Other Finalists:
  • François Barcelo, La Face cachée des pierres
  • Nicole Côté, Verre de tempête
  • Pierrot Lambert, L'Insight: Étude de la compréhension humaine

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